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Autore |
Chong Ja Ian |
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External intervention and the politics of state formation : China, Indonesia, and Thailand, 1893-1952 / / Ja Ian Chongn, National University of Singapore [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012 |
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1-107-22964-2 |
1-139-50807-5 |
1-280-77401-0 |
9786613684783 |
1-139-51768-6 |
1-139-51510-1 |
1-139-00519-7 |
1-139-51418-0 |
1-139-51675-2 |
1-139-51861-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 293 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Classificazione |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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State, The |
Political development |
China Politics and government 20th century |
Indonesia Politics and government 20th century |
Thailand Politics and government 20th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1. Molding the institutions of governance: theories of state formation and the contingency of sovereignty in fragile polities -- 2. Imposing states: foreign rivalries, local collaboration, and state form in peripheral polities -- 3. Feudalising the Chinese polity, 1893-1922: assessing the adequacy of alternative takes on state reorganization -- 4. External influence and China's feudalisation, 1893-1922: opportunity costs and patterns of foreign intervention -- 5. The evolution of foreign involvement in China, 1923-1952: rising opportunity costs and |
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convergent approaches to intervention -- 6. How intervention remade the Chinese state, 1923-1952: foreign sponsorship and the building of sovereign China -- 7. Creating Indonesia, 1893-1952: major power rivalry and the making of sovereign statehood -- 8. Siam stands apart, 1893-1952: external intervention and rise of a sovereign Thai state -- 9. Domesticating international relations, externalising comparative politics: foreign intervention and the state in world politics. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book explores ways foreign intervention and external rivalries can affect the institutionalization of governance in weak states. When sufficiently competitive, foreign rivalries in a weak state can actually foster the political centralization, territoriality and autonomy associated with state sovereignty. This counterintuitive finding comes from studying the collective effects of foreign contestation over a weak state as informed by changes in the expected opportunity cost of intervention for outside actors. When interveners associate high opportunity costs with intervention, they bolster sovereign statehood as a next best alternative to their worst fear - domination of that polity by adversaries. Sovereign statehood develops if foreign actors concurrently and consistently behave this way toward a weak state. This book evaluates that argument against three 'least likely' cases - China, Indonesia and Thailand between the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. |
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